In the article, Roberts tells Business Insider that he believes the gender debate is over, despite the fact that in 2014 only 11 percent of creative directors were female, according to a survey from the 3% Conference. He also said that he thinks Gallop makes a lot of stuff up “to create a profile, and to take applause” and said that he thinks many women are not interested in leadership roles.

When asked what she thought of Roberts’ comments, Gallop responded by stating that “The best response to that is to throw it open to the industry, and ask the women and men of the ad industry, all around the world, to tweet at @krconnect to let him know whether they think I'm 'making it all up’.”

While Business Insider pointed out that 65 percent of Saatchi & Saatchi’s employees are female, and that its parent company Publicis Groupe has a 50/50 gender split, many people took to Twitter call out Roberts for his comments: